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Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Slight are the outward signs of evil thought.
Slight are the outward signs of evil thought.
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.
That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse
of brain, says the Spaniard.
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse
of brain, says the Spaniard.
